Borderlands of Western civilization
Subtitle: a history of East central Europe
By: by O. Halecki.
Publisher: Ronald Press Co
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Europe, Central -- History.; Slavs -- History.
Description: xvi, 503 p. illus. 24 cm.
Table of contents: class: section
title: I. THE BACKGROUND; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 1. The Geographical and Ethnographical Background … 3; class: section
title: — East Central Europe … 3; class: section
title: — Slavs and Balts … 7; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 2. The Slavs and their Neighbors … 12; class: section
title: — The Slavs and Eurasia … 12; class: section
title: — The Earliest Relations Between Slavs and Teutons … 16; class: section
title: — The Slavs and the Byzantine Empire … 21; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 3. Toward Political Organization … 25; class: section
title: — The Moravian State and the Apostles of the Slavs … 25; class: section
title: — The Magyar Invasion and the Problem of Rumanian Continuity … 30; class: section
title: — The Normans in Eastern Europe … 32; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: II. THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 4. The Heritage of the Tenth Century … 41; class: section
title: — The Western Slavs … 41; class: section
title: — The Eastern Slavs … 45; class: section
title: — The Fall of the Bulgarian Empire and the Rise of Hungary … 49; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 5. Internal Disintegration and Foreign Penetration … 56; class: section
title: — Bohemia and Poland Until the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century … 56; class: section
title: — The Disintegration of the Kievan State … 60; class: section
title: — The Repercussions of the Fourth Crusade in the Balkans … 65; class: section
title: — German Crusaders and Colonists in North Eastern Europe … 69; class: section
title: — The Mongol Invasion … 74; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 6. The Heritage of the Thirteenth Century … 79; class: section
title: — The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Kingdoms of Halich and Lithuania … 79; class: section
title: — Poland's Progress in the Thirteenth Century … 83; class: section
title: — The Last Árpáds and Přemyslids … 87; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 7. The New Forces of the Fourteenth Century … 92; class: section
title: — The First Luxemburgs in Bohemia … 92; class: section
title: — Hungary Under the Anjous … 96; class: section
title: — The Rise and Fall of Serbia, and the Ottoman Advance … 101; class: section
title: — The Last Piast Kings of Poland … 105; class: section
title: — Lithuania’s Expansion Under Gediminas and His Sons … 110; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: III. RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENTS; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 8. The Times of Władysław Jagiełło and Sigismund of Luxemburg … 117; class: section
title: — The Foundation of the Polish-Lithuanian Union and Queen Jadwiga … 117; class: section
title: — Jagiełło and Vytautas … 121; class: section
title: — The Eastern Policy of Sigismund of Luxemburg … 126; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 9. The Later Fifteenth Century … 132; class: section
title: — From the Union of Florence to the Crusade of Varna … 132; class: section
title: — Casimir the Jagellonian, George of Podĕbrady, and Mathias Corvinus … 136; class: section
title: — The Eastern Questions in the Fifteenth Century … 142; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 10. From the First Congress of Vienna to the Union of Lublin … 147; class: section
title: — Jagellonians and Habsburgs Before and After the First Congress of Vienna (1515) … 147; class: section
title: — The Secularization of Prussia and  the Consequences of Mohács … 151; class: section
title: — The Height of Ottoman Pressure in East Central Europe … 155; class: section
title: — The Habsburg Advance in East Central Europe … 160; class: section
title: — Renaissance and Reformation in Poland … 164; class: section
title: — The Union of Lublin … 168; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 11. The Later Sixteenth Century … 173; class: section
title: — The Struggle for the Dominium Maris Baltici From Stephen Báthory to Sigismund Vasa … 177; class: section
title: — The Union of Brest … 181; class: section
title: — The Origins of the Ukrainian Cozacks … 186; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: IV. THE EASTERN WING OF THE BALANCE OF POWER SYSTEM; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 12. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century … 193; class: section
title: — Western Interference in the Russian “Time of Troubles” … 193; class: section
title: — The Eastern Repercussions of the Thirty Years’ War … 197; class: section
title: — The Gathering Storm … 201; class: section
title: — The Great Cozack Insurrection … 206; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 13. The Second Half of the Seventeenth Century … 211; class: section
title: — The Great Swedish Invasion … 211; class: section
title: — The Russian and Turkish Advance … 215; class: section
title: — The Battle of Vienna and Its Aftermath … 220; class: section
title: — The Constitutional Crisis of East Central Europe … 225; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 14. The End of the Ancien Régime … 230; class: section
title: — The Northern War and the Eastern Question … 230; class: section
title: — Toward Russian-Prussian Cooperation … 235; class: section
title: — During the Polish and Austrian Succession Wars … 242; class: section
title: — The Repercussions of the Seven Years’ War in East Central Europe … 247; class: section
title: — Bohemia and Hungary in the Eighteenth Century … 252; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 15. The Partitions of Poland and the Eastern 	Question … 258; class: section
title: — The First Partition of Poland … 258; class: section
title: — The New Eastern Question … 263; class: section
title: — The Second and Third Partitions of Poland … 268; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: V. NATIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 16. The Napoleonic Period … 279; class: section
title: — The Rise of National Consciousness in East Central Europe	… 279; class: section
title: — Napoleon as a Liberator … 284; class: section
title: — The Failures of the Congress of Vienna … 288; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 17. Revolutionary Movements Until 1848 … 293; class: section
title: — The Independence Wars of Serbs and Greeks … 293; class: section
title: — The Origin and Background of the November Insurrection in Poland … 298; class: section
title: — The Nationalities Policy of Nicholas I and Metternich … 303; class: section
title: — From the Crisis of 1846 to the Revolution of 1848 … 308; class: section
title: — Slavs and Magyars in the Hungarian Independence War … 313; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 18. From the Crimean War to the Congress of Berlin … 319; class: section
title: — East Central Europe During and After the Crimean War … 319; class: section
title: — The January Insurrection and Its Consequences … 323; class: section
title: — Constitutional Reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy … 328; class: section
title: — The Liberation of Bulgaria and the Crisis of 1878 … 333; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 19. Toward World War I … 338; class: section
title: — The Nationalities Problem in Russia and the Revolution of 1905 … 338; class: section
title: — The Nationalities Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy … 342; class: section
title: — The Crisis of 1908 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 … 347; class: section
title: — The Origins of World War I in East Central Europe … 352; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: VI. TWENTY YEARS OF FREEDOM; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 20. The Conseqences of World War I … 359; class: section
title: — Toward National Self-Determination … 359; class: section
title: — The Disintegration of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires … 364; class: section
title: — East Central Europe at the Paris Peace Conference … 368; class: section
title: — The Defense Against Soviet Russia … 373; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 21. The Peoples of East Central Europe Between the Wars … 379; class: section
title: — Records of Independence … 379; class: section
title: — The Ukrainians and White Ruthenians in the Soviet Union … 412; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 22. International Relations Between the Wars … 417; class: section
title: — East Central Europe in the League of Nations … 417; class: section
title: — Toward Regional Federations … 421; class: section
title: — Relations with Western Europe … 426; class: section
title: — The German and Russian Danger … 430; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: VII. DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 23. Hitler’s War … 439; class: section
title: — The First Aggressions … 439; class: section
title: — The Invasion of Poland and Her War Record … 444; class: section
title: — The Fate of the Baltic and Danubian Regions … 448; class: section
title: — Hitler’s Conquest of the Balkans … 453; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 24. Stalin’s Peace … 458; class: section
title: — From Nazi Occupation to Soviet “Liberation” … 458; class: section
title: — Yalta … 463; class: section
title: — Behind the Curtain … 467; class: section
title: — East Central Europe and America … 472; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Bibliography … 477; class: section
title: Index … 485